COMMENTARY

Having just returned from my 3rd trip to India in a year, I felt compelled to respond to the ridiculous reactions to the Interlok hoooha and especially to the book burning incident. Seriously, don’t you think there are more serious and pressing problems affecting the Indian community in Malaysia than the Interlok book? What about…

SHOCKING FAILURE BY POLICE TO INVESTIGATE OR TAKE ANY ACTION ON THE UNLAWFL KILLINGS BY POLICE AT GLENMARIE ON 13.11.2010 INCLUDING THE KILLING OF A 15 YEAR OLD The quest for justice for the recent police shooting victims at Glenmarie continues due to police failure to investigate. Lawyers for Liberty is gravely concerned over the…

Please be informed that K.Selvach’s habeas corpus application has been fixed for hearing: Date: 20 December 2010 Time: 8:30 a.m Venue: Mahkamah Tinggi Jenayah (I), Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur Note that K.Selvach has been detained without trial since 25 October and it is fundamental that he be allowed to assert his constitutional rights and challenge…

Despite the police’s own statistics, coming no less from CID deputy director Acryl Sani Abdullah, Minister Hisham has brushed off the gruesome fatal shootings of 82 deaths in 2008 and 88 deaths in 2009 as “sensationalised by certain parties” and that there may be a “slight increase”! Hairan bin ajaib! Can the Minister count? A…

Please be informed that K.Selvach’s habeas corpus application has been fixed for hearing: Date: 3 December 2010 Time: 8:30 a.m Venue: Mahkamah Tinggi Jenayah (I), Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur The defence team will be insisting that the hearing proceed on the day and will object to any request for postponement. The AG’s Chambers have been…

It just boggles the mind how easily the courts disregard the rights and freedoms of the rakyat. Here we have, an outright urgent case of a man being abducted, assaulted and detained by the police without trial since 25 October – all because he dared to testify against the police in R.Gunasegaran’s death in police…

On 10 November 2010, after much difficulty, Lawyers for Liberty filed a habeas corpus application to obtain the release of K.Selvach, a victim of the repugnant Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act 1985 that has allowed the PDRM to abduct, assault and detain him without trial since 25 October. After more than a week of…

Who wants to be free? Who wants to be rid of the lies, deceit and oppression of the Alliance/National Front government? Well, certainly not those who dance to the tune of the posturer and pretender Zaid Ibrahim, former Umno man and ex-leader of the reactionary Muslim Lawyers Association. At a time when a small and beleagured opposition and civil society stood valiantly against despotic…

The continuing descent of the Malaysian police force into lawlessness has been graphically demonstrated by the October 25th abduction and beating of K.Selvachandran by police personnel. Selvachandran was a key witness who testified against the police in the recently concluded R.Gunasegaran inquest. On the very day the verdict was delivered in the inquest, police moved against Selvachandran. When Selva’s children asked police why their…

Surely the issue cannot be that the lawyers and pupils were “only detained for a few hours” as I was made to understand. The real issue is that constitutional and human rights have been violated and that this incident is not the case of a few bad apples but rather a wider and serious problem of the PDRM’s contempt for the Constitution and human rights and the role played by lawyers.

How does that reflect on the Bar Council and its various committees when nothing is offered to these lawyers and pupils other than a press statement? What message is being sent to them and other volunteers?

By Eric Paulsen If the ASEAN Inter-govermental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) lives up to the mark of the European Court of Human Rights or to a lesser extent the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, it will be the most curious thing I ever saw in my life! Military rule in Myanmar (Source: stolenchildhood.net) Sometime ago,…